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@Twiface
To be fair, there is actual slavery possible in Palworld. It isn’t just an empty name call. The pal balls work on human npcs, including faction leaders.

@FeatherTrap
I’m not really into multiplayer games so I don’t think I’ll bother to get invested in this. I am, however, happy to see some competition for an otherwise stagnant franchise.

Admittedly, it is a bit disturbing when the Steam page shows conveyor belts full of Kalashnikovs.

How many of these people said this about Pokemon?
It sounds like they’re only saying this because Palworld makes you put effort into caring for the pals instead of just keeping them in your pocket all day with only the occasional meal.
Well, I guess it actually does. Never mind.

And how many of these people were complaining about AI generated shit before Palworld?

You should just ignore people who levy disingenuous criticism like this.

Capital ‘B’ Blackjack?

What about blackjack with femboy dealers?

What about roulette with femboy croupiers?

What if we kicked the White Glove Society out of the Ultra-Luxe and let femboys run the place?

@ANoobis
Literally everyone I know who enjoys video gaming as a hobby is hopping on Palworld, my steam friends list pops up mentions of it constantly.

They just can’t stand it because it doesn’t pander to their sensibilities, it knows what it wants to be and commits. Not to mention it’s similar to Baldur’s Gate 3 in that it’s a (at best) AA Studio game with more content and respect for it’s players then everything the entire “AAA Industry” has released since Borderlands and Destiny made it clear to everyone that it was okay to make shit games now, because people are stupid enough to buy into it.

The frustrating thing about this is that Palworld deserves some serious criticism about it’s game design: Pals that are supposedly over twenty levels lower then you can still somehow double-tap you, the amount of grinding the same three dungeons for components like coal and sulfur is tedium incarnate, and the equipment degradation system decided that TES IV Oblivion was just being far too nice with it’s own system and aspired to reach the peak of obnoxiousness.

But no, instead of getting a discussion about things that actually do need to be rebalanced to make the game more fun, instead the discourse is about dumb shit like:

“UUUUGH, THIS GAME PREMOTES ANIMAL ABUSE!” (Abusing/Neglected the Pals in your base punishes you by making your experience three times more tedious then it already is.)

“NYEEEEEEAH, THIS GAME INVOLVES SLAVERY!” (Because remember: giving your ’mons a place to sleep, eat, play and relax is wrong if you demand a bit of work from them to keep their home running smoothly. You should do more that Nintendo wholesomeness with them, like make them violently maul each other cockfighting.

“THE DESIGNS WHERE AI GENERATED!” (That has never been proven, it is only suggested by screeching morons on Twatter-sorry I mean ECKSSSSSS)

“THE DESIGNS WHERE STOLEN FROM POKEMON!” (…and? Your point? Look I’m gonna be honest, if anyone fucking deserves to just have their IPs fucking stolen and used by devs who are actually inspired to innovate on the base concept, it’s Nintendo. Bar the occasional and very rare game like Paper Mario or Breath of the Wild their IPs have been stagnating for decades, with Pokémon being the most blatant example. I am totally okay with people just making their own Legally-Distinct-Pokémon game now. with Blackjack. And Femboy Hooters. In fact you know what? Screw the game (and the Backjack)!)

@ANoobis
Remember folks, if journos hate it and real people like it, it’s double good.

A Concerned Reader wrote a letter to the editor about how Palworld is trash and proves gaming is dying. It feels inorganic. The author voice is indistinguishable from that of a stereotypical journo and the piece parrots the media complex’s AI narrative.

I literally just found a “Free Pals Alliance” Camp that was attacking nearby Pals…and it had a caged Pal in it. X3

@Cyborg_pony
Hmmm… that’s actually a rather insightful take, for the most part, that is. Sledeghammer, yeah, sure, but ice sheet? I’d say more like some kind of glass.

@Anonymous #2138
You seem like someone who likes dishing it out, but when it comes to taking it, you do as well as a thin ice-sheet takes a sledgehammer.

Nice try, fuckwit. What does that have to do with the argument, anyway? Goodbye.

@FeatherTrap
It has to be a parody. And PETA is just jelly

@TrukkinDuck
It’s an NPC faction, not a player guild. Players wouldn’t be using the derpy-ass combat AI of this game that commands the raiders charge your base so fervently they pay no mind to the PC on Slinky-dragon back riding out to bathe them all in dragon fire before they get there and charge right past as best they can, even if that means running straight to their deaths in aforementioned flames. XP

@FeatherTrap
NPC or real people?

AS FAR AS WE KNOW O.O

@FeatherTrap
I don’t see why they would be mad. It’s not like the FPA is snatching up a bunch of Pals to euthanize and dump, so it’s unlikely to be a parody of PETA.

@IvanSatoru

OH, so I just learned the real reason why PETA is pissed off with Palworld. X3

It’s because there’s a faction that keeps raiding you called the Free Pals Alliance, which apart from having an unwieldy acronym, are dressed in turbans and twabs and are violent extremists against anyone who violates their own code of ethics.

…I wonder what the Palworld devs are implying here? X3

Mario Kart Tour is now featuring various cities across Asia.

@IvanSatoru
>HEHE they’re all homos
Nice meme and playground taunt. Also, I disagree with you on art being better with AI objectively. Its the thought put into it that counts not just strokes.

@ANoobis
LOL at those homos whining about AI giving us better art and better games than they can cobble together. I hope they lose their jobs.
Nobody cares if AI made the game, or about copyright infringement (LOL), or what have you that the article claims a discussion of is “raging in the background”. People want to have fun and that’s exactly what they are having. Mizobe did nothing wrong— especially if he used AI.

Palworld’s sales are over six million after four days. The Palworld team have already gotten death threats. More interesting, this game is getting the same treatment as Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3. Western devs are extraordinarily bitter over its success, and they’re trying to sink it on Twitter through any means they can think of. The biggest push this time around is to make baseless accusations that Palworld was made using AI.

So, kinda like Pokemon: Black and Blue?

Everyone is having a blast with Palworld. It’s got everything that GayFreak would never put in a game: guns, slavery, trainer abusing pokemon, pokemon dying, real-time combat.

@TrukkinDuck
@Fleur de Lis

That’s what I thought too, though maybe the other guy was talking about Public Address systems or the state of Pennsylvania. Though these aren’t mutually exclusive. For example, you can build PA systems in PA, or you could play PA while you’re in PA, or you could build a PA in PA in PA.

@Anonymous #F9D1
It reminds me of what Paradox did to Surviving Mars. When the original developer moved on, Paradox brought in another studio to pump out a pointless expansion, before finally killing the game so they could concentrate on making shoddy spinoffs.

@TrukkinDuck
It looks nice but those tech requirements are a bit steep.